Jacob Ribnik
Vice President Of Engineering at ZeroMark, Inc.
Poway, California, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Ribnik is a Vice President of Engineering and Ph.D. physicist who blends 12+ years of software and platform leadership with hands-on systems engineering. He has built and scaled globally distributed engineering organizations at MongoDB and now leads engineering at ZeroMark, pairing a track record of on-time delivery with cross-functional impact across GTM, Sales, Product, R&D, Finance, and IT. Technically fluent from C/C++ and backend systems to TypeScript frontends, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and GenAI, he still insists on ViM for code. Earlier in his career he designed data platforms used to discover the Higgs boson at CERN and architected industry-leading weather forecasting systems, bringing uncommon research rigor to product engineering. He’s known for recruiting high-performing teams, creating developer-centric platforms, and pragmatically bridging deep scientific insight with enterprise-grade software delivery.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Physics, Ph.D. Physics at UC Santa BarbaraUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Hungarian
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Github Skills (8)
mongoose-plugin10
mongodb10
aggregation-framework6
full-text-search6
bson6
geospatial6
pymongo6
salesforce2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jribnik/mongo-hacker
Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:4 pushes in 10 months
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